The Cataract National Dataset electronic multi-centre audit of 55 567 operations: Anaesthetic techniques and complications

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-55

  El Hindy, N ^a   Johnston, R L ^b   Jaycock, P ^c   Eke, T ^d   Braga, A J ^b   Tole, D M ^c   Galloway, P ^a   Sparrow, J M ^c,e  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cataract National Dataset; Cataract surgery; Complications; Electronic patient records; Local anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHEMOSIS; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EYE MALFORMATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SIDE EFFECT; SURGEON; UNITED KINGDOM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 58249112249     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6703031     Document Type: Article

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